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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers have arrested a mother, who was driving with her five children in a minivan, after they discovered nearly 231 pounds of drugs stashed in the vehicle. The 34-year-old woman, whose name has not been disclosed, was driving a Honda Odyssey from Mexico through San Diego’s Otay Mesa Port […]

During a traffic stop on Aug. 27, 2017, federal authorities arrested 33-year-old tractor-trailer driver Abraham Castro of San Diego on charges of traffic violations on the New Jersey Turnpike. As investigating officers approached the vehicle headed northbound via Essex County, another passenger, 42-year-old Hector Leonel Lucas-Ramos, suddenly sprang out of the vehicle to zip up […]

Officers of the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), stationed at the San Ysidro port of entry (POE) in San Diego near the America-Mexico border, on July 19, 2017, seized 33 packages containing more than 98 pounds of cocaine worth around $1.5 million hidden inside a car. While waiting in the queue for inspection […]

As many as 13 Latin Americans were charged recently in connection with four separate drug busts that saw the United States Coast Guard seizing nearly 11,000 pounds of cocaine from vessels at sea during May-June 2017. The accused men, mostly Ecuadorians and Colombians, were charged on June 23 with possession of cocaine with the intent […]

Three drug busts conducted in a span of 12 hours by Border Patrol agents at different checkpoints across San Diego County have led to a startling discovery of huge quantities of methamphetamine and heroin worth more than $350,000, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said. In the first bust at a checkpoint on I-8 […]

America is in the grip of substance abuse epidemic and San Diego is not immune to this calamity. With its port on the Pacific coast and its proximity to the Mexican border, San Diego is, in fact, on the forefront of the drug trade rampant across the United States. In early December 2016, officers of […]